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Nairobi - The Supreme Court has declared that the next National Assembly and Senate do not have to immediately abide by Article 81 (b) of the Constitution that says not more than two-thirds of their members should be of the same gender.

The ruling was delivered by a majority on Tuesday afternoon and read by Justice Jackton Ojwang, who stressed that the time frame for the implementation of the gender rule was clearly spelt out in the Constitution’s Fifth Schedule giving the legislature up to five years from the promulgation date.

The Auditor General report that revealed massive wastage of public funds shows how Kenya is too far from winning the war against graft, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee chairman Nicholas Gumbo has said. Read more...